Getting Yew to work with Rust on ‘Bash on Ubuntu on Windows’ in Windows 10

Purpose

Yew is a new web framework written in Rust that takes concepts from React JS and Elm. It takes the two web libraries I love and combines them with the new language I love — Rust. I wrote this article because I haven’t found a lot of documentation online on how to get the Yew examples running, and I’m sure there will be people that will run into the same problems I did. I wrote this in hopes that it helps someone out there.

Here is the big kicker. Make sure you have the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed! You can check by opening Bash on Ubuntu on Windows and typing: